Harper's Index for April 2005
Percentage of Social Security contributions that go toward administrative costs: 0.6
Average percentage of contributions to Britain's privatized pension system that do: 30
Number of U.S. residents convicted of “international terrorism” between fall 2001 and fall 2003: 184
Median sentence given, in days: 14
Percentage of born-again U.S. Christians who have been divorced: 35
Percentage of other Americans who have been: 35
Estimated number of young Christians in 1995 who had pledged to wait until marriage for sex: 2,500,000
Estimated percentage who waited: 12
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